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Women Less Likely to Get Blood Thinner for Irregular Heartbeat

They have a higher stroke risk from the condition than men, doctor notes.

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Marriage a Boost for Heart Attack Survivors

Post-discharge support is critical, study says.

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Cancer's Heavy Financial Burden

1 in 10 patients skipped doctor visits, nearly 1 in 5 didn't fill prescriptions due to cost, survey shows.

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Standard blood pressure target is sufficient for treating some strokes

NIH-funded study helps answer decades old question about emergency blood pressure management options.

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Brain scan showing damage caused by bleeding during a hemorrhagic stroke.

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Better water system maintenance needed to prevent Legionnaires' disease outbreaks

New toolkit offers practical tips for reducing germ’s growth, spread in building water systems

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Water Management problems can lead to Legionnaires' disease outbreaks

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Anesthesia Safe for Infants, Toddlers, Study Says

No lingering mental effects seen after one exposure, but more research needed, doctor suggests.

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Coming Soon: A Wearable Artificial Kidney?

Small trial suggests device might be feasible, potentially freeing patients from dialysis machines.

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Thailand certified for freeing newborns from HIV

Joint Press Release from Thailand Ministry of Public Health, CDC, UNAIDS, WHO, and UNICEF

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Baby in Thailand, 2011. Thailand is the first country in Asia, and among the first in the world, where the rate of HIV transmission from mothers to newborns has fallen below 2%.

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Human Connectome Project Marks its First Phase

Brain connectivity gets personal, as an individual’s scans predict behavior

Scans of an individual’s brain activity are emerging as powerful predictive tools, thanks to the Human Connectome Project (HCP), an initiative of the National Institutes of Health. Such individual differences were often discarded as “noise” – uninterpretable apart from group data.

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WHO validates elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis in Armenia, Belarus and the Republic of Moldova

Joint Press Release from WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF, and UNFPA

United Nations agencies congratulate Belarus for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of both HIV and syphilis and Armenia and the Republic of Moldova for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, respectively.